Prayer, meditation, spirituality, and the wisdom of the Ancients

About Sister Alma Rose

Photo: Campbells, McDonalds meet again at Glencoe. Mary’s sister, Pipi Campbell Peterson (center), traveled to Scotland last year and, near the site of the infamous Glencoe Massacre, met Scott and Diane Fletcher. Scott’s mother was a McDonald. Pipi and Mary are co-authors ofReady, Set, Organize.

A search for legume images led me to your site. You have my interest and that’s saying a lot because I’m a determined atheist, but I am full of love. There is love and beauty here. I will be watching what you are up to- I will be back for a visit. Best Regards, Valerie

Hi, Valerie. I’ve had a lot of computer problems so it’s taken all this time for me to read your kind words. I’m glad something in my blog resonated with you. It seems to me that love transcends belief and nonbelief… but then, to me, “Love” is one of the names of God. In one of the free classes from the Meditation Society of Australia, the narrator explains, using terms from quantum physics, that everything is energy and all energy is love.
I’m not trying to “convert” you from atheism. Organized religion, with all its rules and “holy wars,” hasn’t done much for God’s image. Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days in the mid-1500s, went under the axe at the order of her cousin Queen Mary I (“Bloody Mary”) because she, Jane, a Protestant, refused to accept the possibility of transubstantiation — would not even consider that the Eucharist — the bread and the wine — physically became the body and blood of Christ when consecrated. She was 17 and a brilliant scholar. Transubstantiation isn’t even biblical, it’s just this made-up Catholic thing dating from the 12th century. Jane’s uncle and Mary’s father, King Henry VIII, had executed Catholic priests, seized the monasteries and awarded them to his most loyal nobles, and turned the monks out in a brutal wave of anti-Catholicism. A generation later, Queen Mary was burning Protestants on crosses placed at street corners throughout London.
But I don’t denounce Christianity entirely. In an earlier era, I might have been a Quaker. At one time I almost became a Mennonite.
In any case, you have your path and I have mine. Somehow I believe we’ll end up in the same place…. Thanks again, Valerie…. Mary